“The first set was 6-0, everybody saw it,” the 28-year-old Davydenko said. “But if you saw the match, it was not so easy. I tried every point but Nadal had very good concentration and played very well every point. I really had the chance to win some games, but I played a little bit slowly, he played much faster…[In the end] I think he lost a little bit of concentration and lost the match. For me it was a really good fight today.” Nadal remains without a title since May 2009 at Rome.

I recently read an article about how in 2002, the official World Number 1 wasn’t the same as the best player in the world.

Boy did Brisbane hit the jackpot in players.

Sean Randall peers into his crystal ball to see what’s to come in 2010.

Sean Randall breaks down the Friday quarterfinals from Paris.

Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon
Lyon, France
Surface: hard indoor

Seeds: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gilles Simon, Ivan Ljubicic, Juan Monaco, Julien Benneteau, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Benjamin Becker, Al Montanes
ADHEREL
Floaters: None
Notes: One Top 10er in Tsonga; wildcards to oldies Arnaud Clement, Sebastien Grosjean, Michael Llodra (are there no French up-and-comers?); Algeria’s Lamine Ouahab gets directly in; Stan Wawrinka pulled, was [...]

Sean Randall breaks down the Shanghai Masters field.

21-year-old Marin Cilic scored his second big scalp in as many months following a 6-1, 6-3 beating over Rafael Nadal in the Beijing semifinals.

Top seed Rafael Nadal showed no signs of wear and tear after the Spaniard ripped former No. 1 Marat Safin.

Andy Murray has the tools to win a Grand Slam event, but he does face a tough question: “Should I stick with a generally effective strategy of counterpunching or change strategies by developing and using bigger shots?” Internal doubts arising from this quandary might be worse than just selecting one option and committing to it.